1) Who will provide the computers for the contest?

LSU will provide all the computer systems that will be used by competitors and judges during the contest. The contest will be held in public lab facilities that are normally available to all LSU students (except during special events like this).

13) What programming tools/languages can be used?

ACM International Programming Contest provides/allows the use of three languages. They also make a serious effort to provide an Integrated Development Environment for each language.

Language

Implementation

Version

c

gnu

gcc-4.8.2-15

c++

gnu

gcc-c++-4.8.2.-15

java

Sun JDK

Java 1.8.0_20java 1.7.0_67

Scripting Languages

Language

Version

Perl

5.10.0

PHP

5.3.3

Python

2.6.6, python27, python33

Ruby

1.8.7

Because of the various requests for various Javas (and the issues with Java last year), we are planning to provide all two versions listed above. When you submit your programs, you must make sure to choose the correct version. We will judge with the version you select.

The Eclipse IDE will be available for c/c++ (via CDT) and Java. Both version 2 and 3 will be installed.